Poetry from Amanda Little Rose

Photo: Dima Pechurin

Stowaway

There’s a hole in my sweater
From when I got caught—
On the bedroom door jamb—
Trying to run,
From every bad thing
I’ve ever done.
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Amanda Little Rose has been a high school English teacher for five years, and graduated with a Bachelors of Arts and Science in English and Secondary Education from Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island, where she is currently studying to get her MFA in Poetry.